From 3112570274975580910 X-Google-Thread: f78e5,33c1ffa960d55699 X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!newsfeed2.dallas1.level3.net!news.level3.com!newsfeed-00.mathworks.com!peer-uk.news.demon.net!kibo.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!stump.algebra.com!devnull From: hyrosen@mail.com (Hyman Rosen) Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: Suggestion: parent Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 20:59:03 GMT Lines: 17 Sender: mail2news@demon.net Approved: fjh@cs.mu.oz.au (Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++) Message-ID: <20050510120102.A34CF780A4@mscan4.ucar.edu> References: <4280298A.6090305@usq.edu.au> <2NXfe.4884$eU.970@fed1read07> NNTP-Posting-Host: news.news.demon.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1115845147 9821 158.152.254.254 (11 May 2005 20:59:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 20:59:07 +0000 (UTC) X-Robomod: STUMP, ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov) X-User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at cs.mu.OZ.AU X-Received: (from fjh@localhost) by mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.9/Submit) id j4BKx3oX028868; Thu, 12 May 2005 06:59:03 +1000 (EST) X-Path: comp-std-cpp-robomod!not-for-mail X-Delivered-To: std-c++@ucar.edu X-Authentication-Warning: mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU: fjh set sender to devnull@stump.algebra.com using -f X-Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.std.c++:4700 James Dennett wrote: > In the past the idea hasn't had all that much support, given that > it's not hard to add a typedef manually and that generalizations to > multiple inheritance are either restricted or complicated. It's the MI case where this is most useful, but complicated template base classes could use the help as well. I don't see anything all that difficult - simply let inherited be the (N+1)th direct base class, and let inherited::name be the name found by lookup as if name were not defined in the derived class. --- [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. To submit articles, try just posting with ] [ your news-reader. If that fails, use mailto:std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu ] [ --- Please see the FAQ before posting. --- ] [ FAQ: http://www.jamesd.demon.co.uk/csc/faq.html ]